Soon after Fairbanks was established, residents began clamoring for schools. In the fall of 1903 (even before the city was incorporated), a small private school opened. Thirteen students and their teacher met in a...
This is for fans of my historical essays, drawings, and first book, “Interior Sketches, Ramblings around Interior Alaska historic sites.” Response to the first book was positive, and since I have continued to write...
So all you Northern types who live surrounded by birch trees–there are those winter days when the wind blows and the snow ends up with piles of birch seeds and birch catkin scales...
Had a friend tell me about an ice-laden tree near the old library at the corner of 1st and Cowles here in Fairbanks. The tree stands beneath the downspout of the building’s gutter and...
We have had a paucity of snow so far this year. I took these photos several weeks ago in my front yard. There was still some residual heat in the rocks so the snow...
The Richardson Highway stretches 368 miles from Valdez on Prince William Sound to Fairbanks in the Tanana River Valley. In its earliest form — the Valdez-Fairbanks Trail — it was the dominant overland route...
Barn at Colorado Creek Roadhouse in Fall 2012 Today, if you drive the 60 miles from Fairbanks to Chena Hot Springs, the trip only takes an hour or so. However, during the first few...
KFAR radio transmitter building on Farmers Loop road Within a few years of commercial radio’s birth in the Lower 48, radio stations began popping up in Alaska. In 1922 the Northern Commercial Company (NC...
My grandson and I went looking for the old Colorado Creek Roadhouse this past weekend. It was one of three roadhouses built in the early 1900s along the old winter trail from Fairbanks to...
I was walking downtown by the Big I Pub earlier today. There is a large pile of rusting cast iron pipe, fittings and machine parts behind the building and the early morning sun was...
